Emirati creator Ali Abu Al-Rish described his novel "Galvari on the banks of the Nile", which was published recently, as just a fruit from a giant tree in his passion for Egypt, stressing that he is preparing himself to write more than one work on that country.
Abu Al-Rish, during a symposium and a signing ceremony for "Galvari on the banks of the Nile", the day before yesterday, at the Cairo International Book Fair, that his relationship with Egypt started before he traveled to study philosophy in its universities: “This novel may be one of the fruits of a giant tree in my relationship with Egypt, It is the relationship that I did not start at the time of my studies with it, but since the fifties and sixties, when we were sipping everything that afflicted the feelings of Egypt and the Egyptians, there was in all joints of life we have an Egyptian, because of the need of the Gulf at that time for everything that is Arab, to be the antibiotic "In front of any attack that comes from the east."
Early relationship
The Emirati creator continued, during the symposium organized by the Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi, and moderated by the Egyptian novelist Nasser Iraq: “I had no passion in Egypt before I came to it with three great pyramids that we all cherish; To find in them everything that narrates our thirst, and the second pyramid is the great novelist Naguib Mahfouz, who read to him and saw what the cinema presented to him, and we came to Egypt and we are still thirsty to read and watch more, and in that period we found the book in every street, place and kiosk in Egypt, Unlike other countries ».
As for the third pyramid - according to Abu al-Rish - it is Umm Kulthum: “I remember that I worked on the summer vacation while I was in high school in the Department of Electricity in Dubai, and we went every day from Ras Al Khaimah to Dubai and back in a minibus, and Dubai Radio was broadcasting a song for Umm Kulthum in the period From one o'clock to two o'clock in the afternoon, and this hour was the entire time for us at that time ».
Cairo the seventies
For his part, Nasser Iraq presented a reading in the novel, noting the amazing ability of its owner to tame the Arabic language, as it leans on two cultures, the first is the Emirati deep in the heritage of the sea, the desert and the generosity, and the second is an Arab culture derived from his readings of the Arabic novel, which made him possess The language is surprisingly corner, and offers deep analogies in his works, while his study of philosophy and his passion for the novel gave him depth.
Iraq added that the novel, which includes three chapters, leans on the idea of the knowing narrator, and is characterized by the flow of internal concerns and the stream of internal awareness with intensity, in addition to the features that depict it for life in Cairo, so that the writer was able to retrieve the 1970s Cairo and pour it on paper, which makes the reader need To read it more than once, because of the questions it raises, and the intellectual effort involved in building it, and the ability to move across time and space smoothly.
A memory inhabited with love
The Emirati writer Ali Abu al-Rish said that he tried in a novel "Galvari on the banks of the Nile" to touch some of the whole, as he was still preparing himself to write more than a novel about his relationship with Egypt, which was not the relationship of a person to a country, but the relationship of a nation, feeling, and conscience that was inhabited by Egypt, and therefore not He finds it strange to summon this memory, stressing the urgent need at this stage of the rupture of the Arab conscience to a literary work that brings him back from the diaspora, or at least patching this cloth that has befallen it, stressing the importance of love and transparency, and ridding the mind of historical impurities and waste Which crouched on the breasts.
Emirati novelist:
“What made me passionate about Egypt before I came to her are three pyramids that we all cherish: Abdel Nasser, Naguib Mahfouz and Umm Kulthum.”
Nasser Iraq:
"Ali Abu al-Rish has the ability to tame the Arabic language surprisingly, as he leans on two Emirati cultures, and the second is a comprehensive Arab culture."